September 1993 - WCW pulls out of the NWA, and the NWA no longer recognizes Ric Flair as the NWA World Heavyweight Champion. Flair continues to defend the title belt, which is renamed the "WCW International World Heavyweight Title".

September 19, 1993 - Rick Rude defeats Ric Flair in Houston, Texas for the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship.

June 23, 1994 - Ric Flair defeats Sting in Charleston, South Carolina to win the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship, unifying it with the WCW World Heavyweight Title he already holds.

Disputes: Many don't recognize the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship as being a "World Title". Some that consider it a World Title don't consider Flair unifying it with the WCW World Title as a separate "World Title win".

PART FOUR THE WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE

Note: Please see the NWA World Title section for the 1991 confusion of the NWA World and WCW World Titles.

December 27, 1993 - Ric Flair defeats Vader in Charlotte, North Carolina to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.

April 17, 1994 - The WCW World Title is held up when a match between Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat in Rosemont, Illinois ends in a double-pin.

Dispute: During the May 17th edition of Thunder, Ric Flair collapsed following a scheduled tag team match with Arn Anderson vs. David Flair & Daffney. The following Monday on Nitro, Vince Russo took the title off of Flair and gave it to Jarrett. Then Kevin Nash came out and took physical possession of the title belt. This resulted in a match that night between Jarrett and Nash, which was won by Jarrett. On May 24th, Kevin Nash defeated Jarrett and Scott Steiner in a Three Way Match for the Title, then on May 29th gave the belt to Ric Flair, with his reason being that Russo should not have taken it from Flair in the first place. Flair would go on to wrestle Jarrett that night, and lose the belt to him. Some would argue that Flair's title reign should be seen as uninterrupted, others would just point out how stupid WCW booking was at the time.

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